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INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF 
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International Bureau of the American Republics, 

WasUngton, D. C, May 1, 1906. 

Gentlemen: On March 29, 1890, the International American Con- 
ference, by a unanimous vote of the delegates of the eighteen coun- 
tries there represented, nameh'^, the Argentine Republic, Bolivia, 
Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Hon- 
duras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguaj^, Peru, Salvador, United States, 
UruguaA^, and Venezuela, provided for the establishment of an associa- 
tion to be known as "The International Union of American Republics 
for the Prompt Collection and Distribution of Commercial Informa- 
tion," which should be represented at the capital of the United States 
by a Bureau, under the title of "The Bureau of the American Repub- 
lics." This organ, so to speak, of the independent governments of 
the New World was placed under the supervision of the Secretary of 
State of the United States, and was to continue in existence for a 
period of ten years, and, if found profitable to the nations participat- 
ing in its advantages, it was to be maintained for successive periods of 
ten years indefinitely. (See Appendix I.) 

At the first session of the Fifty-first Congress of the United States, 
that body, in an "Act making appropriations for the support of the 
diplomatic and consular service, etc.," approved July 14, 1890, gave 
the President authority to carr}^ into efl^ect the recommendations of 
the Conference so far as he should deem them expedient, and appro- 
priated $36,000 for the organization and establishment of the Bureau, 
which amount it had been stipulated bj;" the delegates in the Confer- 
ence assembled should not be exceeded, and should be annually 
advanced by the United States and shared by the, several Republics in 
proportion to their population. (See Appendix II.) 

On August 26, 1890, Mr. William E. Curtis was appointed Director 
and was instructed to organize the Bureau. 

The Conference had defined the purpose of the Bureau to be the 
preparation and publication of bulletins concerning the commerce and 
resources of the American Republics, and to furnish information of 
interest to manufacturers, merchants, and shippers, which should be 
at all times available to persons desirous of obtaining particulars 
regarding their customs tariffs and regulations, as well as commerce 
and navigation. 



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The principal work of the Bureau during its existence has been the 
compihition of handbooks, which have been and still are published 
periodically. They contain general and specific information of the 
character sought l)y the merchants, manufacturers, and shippers of 
the American continents. These publications are compiled from 
information received directly from oificial and authentic sources. 

When the Bureau first came to undertake this task, the ignorance 
concerning the political, commercial, and social conditions prevalent 
in all the nations now banded together for the common weal was wide- 
spread, while manv so-called standard publications in English were 
found in numerous cases' to be absolutel}'^ unreliable as to statements 
regarding Central and South American countries. The care with 
which the handbooks of the Bureau are prepared, and the fact that 
they are submitted before publication to the inspection and revision 
of the officials or diplomatic agents of the Governments to which they 
relate, tend to make them reliable, accurate, and authentic. 

The demand for the publications of the Bureau was great from the 
first, far exceeding the supply made possible under the limited 
pecuniary support vouchsafed the Bureau. "^ 

To meet this demand and the ever-increasing requests from those 
for whose benefit the Bureau was established was a perplexing ques- 
tion which early pressed itself upon the attention of the executive offi- 
cers of the Bureau. The second director, Mr. Clinton Furbish, who 
assumed charge on May 18, 1893, and held office until March 29, 1897, 
issued a circular in October, 1893, announcing that thereafter a small 
price would be charged for all the publications, with the view to secur- 
ing impartiality of distribution. This practice still continues. The 
receipts from this source average $1,000 per annum. 

During the incumbency of Mr. Furbish, in accordance with the 
recommendations of the International American Conference, the issue 
of monthly bulletins was inaugurated, the purpose being to procure 
and publish information regarding difierent industries of the several 
Republics and the possibilities of profit in their development. The 
first of these bulletins was issued in October, 1893, being entitled 
" Coffee in America." The second was issued in November under the 
title of "Coal and Petroleum in Colombia." 

Thereafter the Bulletin continued to be a regular monthly publica- 
tion printed in the Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese languages, 
and devoted to the chronicling of important events and intelligence, 
generally obtained from official sources, of the countries belonging to 
the International Union. The edition is 12,000 copies, circulated 
throughout Latin America and the United States, of which, since July, 
1900, by order of Congress, 5,000 copies are printed for distribution 
on the orders of Senators and Representatives. The publication is 
now in its twenty-second volume. 



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As a further means of extending- the Bureau's sources of informa- 
tion, and of making the Bulletin a true reflex of the conditions pre- 
vailing in all the countries comprising the International Union, the 
cooperation has been sought of prominent persons in the various 
Latin- American Republics in the capacity of honorary corresponding 
members of the International Union. These supply the Bureau from 
time to time with information which helps greatly to extend and com- 
plete our knowledge of the economic conditions and resources of the 
respective countries. 

During the year 1896 a most important step was taken by the repre- 
sentatives of the countries composing the International Union of 
American Republics. For the purpose of carrying out the evident 
intentions of the organizers of this movement, an invitation was 
extended to the accredited representatives of the nations forming the 
union, requesting them to meet the Secretary of State of the United 
States for the purpose of consulting in regard to the future work of 
the Bureau and of enlarging its scope. This meeting was held at the 
Department of State on April 1, 1896. A committee of Ave members 
was appointed to report upon the best means to carry out the ideas of 
the representatives. 

Having devoted much time to the matters submitted to them, the 
committee made a final report June 4, 1896, which was adopted by 
the representatives as a basis for the government of the affairs of the 
union. The report was to the effect that the intention of the Interna- 
tional American Conference was to establish a bureau entirely inter- 
national in character; that in view of this purpose it was desirable 
that citizens of the various countries composing the union should be 
equally eligible to all the positions in the Bureau through competitite 
examination; that the common interest would be subserved b}^ widen- 
ing the scope of the work of the Bureau by making it the organ of 
the union, not only for the purpose of collecting and disseminating 
commercial information, but of dealing with all subjects relating to 
economic life and growth of the countries of the union; that such 
enlargement of the work necessitated increased expenditures, while it 
was not desirable to exceed the limits of the original estimate of 
expense; that this increase of expenditures would best be met by the 
admission of advertisements in the publications of the Bureau. 

Thereupon the report recommended that the Director of the Bureau 
be instructed to take immediate action looking to the insertion ol 
advertisements in the publications. The plan was tried and abandoned. 
A further plan for the reorganization of the Bureau was proposed, 
which incorporated certain regulations regarding the examinations for 
applicants for positions, and created a permanent executive committee 
to be composed of five of the representatives of the American nations 
constituting the union. Four of these were called to serve ex officio in 



said capacity by turns in the alphabetical order of the names of their 
nations in one of the four languag-es of the union, previousl}^ selected by 
lot at a meeting- of the representatives of the same, the Secretary of State 
of the United States being alwaj's, ex officio, a member. At the end 
of the hrst 3'ear the first member of the committee was to be replaced 
by the fifth representative in the alphabetical list, the second by the 
sixth at the end of the second year, and so on in rotation from year to 
year. The executive committee was to convene in ordinary session on 
the first Monday of every month, and in extraordinary session when- 
ever invited b}^ the Secretary of State, and could, when so requested 
by a majorit}' of its members, call a meeting of all the representatives 
of the union. 

The executive committee acted as a board of supervision of the 
administrators of the Bureau, and three of its members personally, or 
by agents designated by them, formed part of the board for the exam- 
ination of applicants for positions in the Bureau. It audited the 
accounts of the Bureau. The Director was instructed to make a 
report to the governments forming the union as soon as possible after 
the 1st day of July of every year on the work of the Bureau for the 
preceding year. (See Appendix III.) 

Among the recommendations of the International Conference at 
Washington, in 1889-90, was one advocating the publication of a code 
of nomenclature of articles of merchandise exported and imported. 
The work of preparing this code, or catalogue, of commercial terms 
devolved upon the Bureau, and was completed in 1897. The work, as 
completed, is in three volumes, in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, 
with the equivalents in each case in the other languages. 

The most important work of the Bureau in the year 1897 was the 
preparation of the Commercial Directory of the American Republics, 
begun under Director Joseph P. Smith. The undertaking was one of 
great magnitude, and entailed large expenditures of money and time. 
The first volume was published about eight months from the time of 
its inception, and the second volume a year later. 

Upon the decease of Mr. Smith, Mr. Frederic Emory, Chief of the 
Bureau of Foreign Commerce of the Department of State, was 
instructed by the Secretary of State to assume charge of the Bureau 
as Acting Director, and on February 28, 1898, by resolution of the 
executive committee, this gentleman was appointed Director, provi- 
sionall}^ Mr. Emory served as secretary of the Bureau from March, 
1893, until April 17, 189-1:, when he was appointed Chief of the Bureau 
of Foreign Commerce of the Department of State. It was not until 
May 21, 1898, that Mr. Emory's successor as secretar}'- of the Bureau 
was appointed, the position having remained vacant in the meantime. 



On that date Dr. Horacio Guzman was designated as secretary, under 
special authority conferred by the executive committee, and served as 
such until the date of his death, April 23, 1901. 

A conference of the members of the International Union of Amer- 
ican Republics was held on March 18, 1899, to consider a plan for the 
permanent government of the Bureau of the American Republics 
which had been submitted to the executive committee of the union 
by the provisional director, Mr. Frederic Emory, as the result of his con- 
clusions in the management of the Bureau. The plan was unanimously 
adopted. (See Appendix IV.) 

Mr. W. W. Rockhill was appointed Director of the Bureau May 20, 
1899, and continued to serve until March 6, 1905, with the exception 
of an interval of about one year, when he was absent on a special 
service. During this period Mr. Williams C. Fox, the chief clerk of 
the Bureau, was Acting Director. 

At the Second International Conference of the American States, held 
in Mexico in 1901-2, a further plan of reorganization was agreed upon. 
(See Appendix V.) 

At the conference in Mexico a branch office of the Bureau was 
established in charge of the Acting Director. Certain important 
duties were imposed upon the Bureau by the Second International 
Conference, which were performed in due course, namely, the carry- 
ing out of the arrangements for the coffee conference (New York, 
October, 1902), the customs congress (New York, January, 1903), and 
the sanitary conferences, (Washington, December, 1902, and October, 
1905). 

The first sanitary conference ^created the International Sanitary 
Bureau, whose duty it is to lend its best aid and experience toward the 
widest possible protection of the public health of each of the American 
Republics. The funds of this Bureau are disbursed, and other details 
attended to, by the International Bureau of the American Republics. 
(See Appendix VI.) 

The suggestion made in the First International Conference (W^ash- 
ington, 1889-90) to establish a Columbus memorial librar}'^ as a monu- 
ment to the conference was perfected in the Second International 
Conference (Mexico, 1901-2). (See Appendixes VII and VIII.) 

The librar}^ contains to-day 13,059 books and pamphlets, 465 maps, 
and 31 general atlases, treating solely of Latin America. The library 
is growing steadily. The necessity for the proper housing of such a 
valuable library and the inadequate quarters which the Bureau occu- 
pies caused Director Rockhill to submit to the governing board a pi'op- 
osition looking toward the acquiring by the Bureau of a permanent 
home. (See Appendix VIII.) 



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The plan met with general approval, and the following countries, 16 
•n all, have informed the Bureau that their quotas for the new build- 
ing would be available when required: 

Argentine Republic. Venezuela. Nicaragua. 

Brazil, Mexico. Salvador. 

Cuba. Bolivia. Chile. 

Honduras. Haiti. Ecuador. 

Peru. Costa Rica. Guatemala. 
Uruguay. 

Six of these countries have already paid their respective quotas for 
this purpose, as follows: 

Brazil $15,254.18 

Cuba 1,469.12 

Honduras 372.50 

Peru 2,775.96 

Uruguay 900.49 

Venezuela 2,170.33 

Total 22, 942. 58 

There is, therefore, $22,942.58 held in trust in the United States 
Treasur}'^ for the purpose of the building. 

The quotas for the building fund have been calculated upon the 
basis of population of the several countries, which at the rate of 
$934.10 per million amount to $125,000. 

Mr. W. W. Rockhill was succeeded by the undersigned as Director 
April 5, 1905. 

Mr. N. Veloz Goiticoa was appointed secretary of the Bureau, April 
7, 1902, and resigned February 1, 1906, being succeeded by Mr. 
Francisco J. Yanes on the following da^^ 

At the regular monthly meeting of the governing board of Decem- 
ber 6, 1905, rules and regulations for the government of the Bureau 
were adopted, under which it is now working. Under these rules 
and regulations four committees were appointed for the purpose of 
cooperating in carrj'ing on the work of the Bureau, as follows: On 
internal regulations, the representatives from (]osta Kica, Ecuador, 
Panama, and the Dominican Republic; on accounts, the representa- 
tives from Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Haiti, and Uruguay; orf library, 
the representatives from Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, and Guatemala; on 
Bulletin and other publications, the representatives from Bolivia, 
Chile, the Argentine Republic, and Venezuela. (See Appendix IX.) 

A list of the Bureau's publications, together with such other docu- 
ments which it has for distribution, is appended herewith. (See 
Appendix X.) 

The work of the Bureau is carried on by twenty-four persons, 
including officials, translators, clerks, and minor employees. 



As was the case at the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893, the Trans- 
Mississippi and International Exposition at Omaha in 1898, the Pan- 
American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901, the South Carolina Inter- 
State and West Indian Exposition at Charleston in 1902, and the 
Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis in 1904, the Bureau was 
represented b3dnvitation at the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, 
which was held at Portland, Oreg., from May 15 to October 16, 1905. 
The exhibit attracted considerable attention on the Pacific coast, and 
was the means of making- the work of the Bureau very widely known 
in that part of the United States. 

I have the honor to be, gentlemen, 3^our obedient servant, 

Williams C. Fox, 

DirectoT. 
The Honorable Chairman and Members of the Governing Board 

OF THE International Union of American Republics. 

810a— 06 2 



Appendix No. I. 

EXTEACT FROM REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEE ON CUSTOMS REGULATIONS AS 
ADOPTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN CONFERENCE AT WASHING- 
TON, 1889-1890. 

At the meeting of the conference, held March 29, 1890, the following resolution was 
adoped: 

"That the Governments here represented shall unite for the establishment of an 
American International Bureau for the collection, tabulation, and publication, in the 
English, Spanish, and Portuguese languages, of information as to the productions and 
commerce, and as to the customs laws and regulations of their respective countries; 
such Bureau to be maintained in one of the countricvS for the common benefit and at 
the common expense, and to furnish to all the other countries such commercial sta- 
tistics and other useful information as may be contributed to it by any of the Amer- 
ican Republics. That the committee on customs regulations be authorized and in- 
structed to furnish to the conference a plan of organization and a scheme for the practi- 
cal work for the proposed Bureau." 

In accordance with said resolution the committee submits the following recom- 
mendations : 

1. There shall be formed by the countries represented in this conference an associ- 
ation under the title of "The International Union of American Republics ior the 
prompt collection and distribution of commercial information." 

2. The International Union shall be represented by a Bureau to be established in 
the cit}' of Washington, D. C, under the supervision of the Secretary of State of the 
United States and to be charged with the care of all transactions and publications and 
with all correspondence pertaining to the International Union. 

3. This Bureau shall be called "The Commercial Bureau of the American Repub- 
lics," and its oi'gan shall be a publication to be entitled "Bulletin of the Commercial 
Bureau of the American Republics." 

4. The Bulletin shall be printed in the English, Spanish, and Portuguese languages. 

5. The contents of the Bulletin shall consist of — 

(a) The existing customs tariffs of the several countries belonging to the union 
and all changes of the same as they occur, with such explanations as may be deemed 
useful. 

(6) All official regulations which affect the entrance and clearance of vessels and 
the importation and exportation of merchandise in the ports of the represented 
countries; also all circulars of instruction to customs officials which relate to customs 
procedure or to the classification of merchandise for duty. 

(c) Ample quotations from commercial and parcel-post treaties between any of 
the American Republics. 

{d) Important statistics of external commerce and domestic products and other 
information of special interest to merchants- and shippers of the rejDresented 
countries. 

6. In order to enable the Commercial Bureau to secure the utmost accuracy in the 
publication of the Bulletin, each country belonging to this union shall send directly 
to the Bureau without delay two copies each of all official documents which may 
pertain to matters having relation to the objects of the union, including customs 
tariffs, official circulars, international treaties or agreements, local regulations, and, 
so far as practical, complete statistics regarding commerce and domestic products 
and resources. 

7. This Bureau shall at all times be available as a medium of communication and 
correspondence for persons applying for reasonable information in regard to matters 
pertaining to the customs tariffs and regulations and to the commerce and navigation 
of the American Republics. 

(8) 



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8. The form and style of the Bulletin shall be determined by the Commercial 
Bureau and each edition shall consist of at least 1,000 copies. In order that diplo- 
matic representatives, consular agents, boards of trade, and other preferred persons 
shall be promptly supplied with the Bulletin, each member of the union may furnish 
the Bureau with addresses to which copies shall be mailed at its expense. 

9. Every country belonging to the International Union shall receive its quota of 
each issue of the Bulletin and the quota of each country shall be in proportion to its 
population. 

Copies of the Bulletin may be sold (if there be a surplus) at a price to be fixed by 
the Bureau. 

10. While it shall be required that the utmost possible care be taken to insure 
absolute accuracy in the publications of the Bureau, the International Union will 
assume no pecuniary responsibility on account of errors or inaccuracies which may 
occur therein. A notice to this effect shall be conspicuously printed upon the first 
page of every successive issue of the Bulletin. 

11. The maximum expense to be incurred for establishing the Bureau and for its 
annual maintenance shall be $36,000, and the following is a detailed estimate of its 
organization, subject to such changes as prove desirable: 

One Director in charge of Bureau, compensation $5, 000 

One secretary 3, 000 

One accountant 2, 200 

One clerk 1, 800 

One clerk and typewriter 1, 600 

One translator ( Spanish and English ) 2, 500 

One translator (Spanish and English ) 2, 000 

One translator ( Portugiiese and English ) 2, 500 

One messenger 800 

One porter 600 

Total 22, 000 

OFFICE EXPENSES. 

Rent of apartments, to contain one room for Director, one room for secretary, 
one room for translators, one room for clerks, etc., and one room for library 
and archives ?3, 000 

Light, heat, cleaning, etc 500 

Total ■ 3, 500 

PUBLICATION OP BULLETIN. 

Printing, paper, and other expenses |10, 000 

Postage, express, and miscellaneous expenses 500 

Total 10, 500 

12. The Government of the United States, through the Secretary of State, to 
advance to the International Union a fund of $36,000, or so much of that amount as 
may be required, for the expenses of the Commercial Bureau during its first year, 
and a like sum for each subsequent year of the existence of this union. 

13. On the 1st day of July of the year 1891, and of each subsequent year during 
the continuance of this union, the Director of the Commercial Bureau shall transmit 
to every Government belonging to the union a statement in detail of the expenses 
incurred for the purposes of the union, not to exceed §36,000, and shall assess upon 
each of said Governments the same proportion of the total outlay as the populations 
of the respective countries bear to the total populations of all the countries represented 
in the union, and all the Governments so assessed shall promptly remit to the Secre- 
tary of State of the United States, in coin or its equivalent, the amounts respectively 
assessed upon them by the Director of the Bureau. In computing the population of 
any of the countries of this union, the Director of the Bureau shall be authorized to 
use the latest official statistics in his possession. The first assessment to be made 
according to the following table: 



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Table of assessments for commercial bureau. 



Countries. 



Haiti 

Nicaragua . 

Peru 

Guatemala 
Uruguay... 
Colombia. . 
Argentina . 
Costa Rica. 
Paraguay.. 
Brazil 



Population. 


Tax. 


500,000 


1187.50 


200, 000 


75.00 


2, tiOO, 000 


975.00 


1,400,000 


.525.00 


600, 000 


225.00 


3,900,000 


1,462. .50 


3, 900, 000 


1,462.50 


200, 000 


75.00 1 


250, 000 


93.75 ! 


14, 000, 000 


.5,250.00 j 



Countries. 



Honduras 

Mexico 

Bolivia 

United States 
Venezuela ... 

Chile •.... 

Salvador 

Ecuador 

Total... 



Population, 



850, 000 
400, 000 
200, 000 
1.50,000 
200, OOJ 
500, 000 
650, 000 
000, 000 



Tax. 



$131. 25 
3, 900. 00 
450. 00 
18,806.00 
825. 00 
937. 50 
243. 75 
375.00 



36, 000. 00 



14. In order to avoid delay in the establishment of the union herein described, the 
delegates assembled in th4s conference will promptly communicate to their respective 
Governments the plan of organization and of practical work ado])ted by the confer- 
ence, and will ask the said Governments to notify the Secretary of State of the United 
States, through their accreciited representatives at this capital or otherwise, of their 
adhesion or nonadhesion, as the case may be, to the terms proposed. 

15. The Secretary of State of the United States is requested to organize and estab- 
lish the Commercial Bureau as soon as practicable after a majority of the countries 
here represented have officially signified their consent to join the International 
Union. 

16. Amendments and modifications of the plans of this union may be made at any 
time during its continuance by the vote, officially communicated to the Secretary of 
State of the United States, of a majority of the members of the union. 

17. This union shall continue in force during a term of ten years from the date of 
its organization, and no country becoming a member of the union shall cease to be a 
member until the end of said period of ten years. Unless twelve months before the 
expiration of said period a majority of the members of the union shall have given to 
the Secretary of State of the United States official notice of their wish to terminate 
the union at the end of its first period, the union shall continue to be maintained for 
another period of ten years and thereafter, under the same conditions, for successive 
periods of ten years each. 

Jose Alfonso. 

M. ROMEKO. 

N. BoLET Peraza. 
Salvador de Mendon^a. 
H. G. Davis. 
Chas. R. Flint. 



Appendix No. II. 

Act making appropriations for the support of the diplomatic and consular service of the United 
States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, approved July 14, 1890, and subsequent acts. 

"For the organization and establishment, under the direction of the Secretary of 
State, of 'The International Union of American Republics for the prompt collection 
and distribution of commercial information,' thirty-six thousand dollars, and the 
sums contributed by other American Republics for this purpose, when collected, 
shall be covered into the Treasury." 

The Fifty-first Congress (U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. 26, p. 1053) appropriated as 
follows for the fiscal year 1891-92: 

"For 'The International Union of American Republics, for the prompt collection 
and distribution of commercial information,' thirty-six thousand dollars; and the 
sums contributed by other American Republics for this purpose, when collected, shall 
be covered into the Treasury." 

The Fifty-second Congress (U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. 27, p. 227) appropriated 
as follows for the fiscal year 1892-93: 

"Commercial Bureau of the American Republics, for the prompt collection and 
distribution of commercial information, as recommended by the International Amer- 
ican Conference, thirty thousand (sic.) dollars. The sums contributed by the other 
American Republics for this purpose, when collected, shall be covered into the 
Treasury." 

The Fifty-second Congress, second session (U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. 27, p. 500), 
appropriated as follows for the year 1893-94: 

"Commercial Bureau of the American Republics, for the prompt collection and 
distribution of commercial information, as recommended by the International Ameri- 
can Conference, thirty thousand dollars. And of the sums heretofore, or which may 
be hereafter, contributed by the other American Republics for this purpose, there 
shall be covered into the Treasury the amount necessary to reimburse the United 
States for the sum advanced beyond its contributive share for the maintenance of the 
American Republics." 

The Fifty-third Congress, second session (U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. 28, pp. 151, 
418, 843), appropriated for the fiscal year 1894-95 as follows: 

"Commercial Bureau of American Republics, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That 
any moneys received from sale of the Bureau publications, from rents, or other sources, 
may be paid into the Treasury as a credit in addition to the appropriation and may 
be drawn therefrom upon requisition of the Secretary of State for the purpose of 
meeting the expenses of the Bureau." 

" For the Bureau of American Republics: For preparing, printing, and circulating 
publications, five thousand dollars. The Bureau of the American Republics shall 
be placed under the control and direction of the Secretary of State, who shall report 
to Congress at its next regular session the propriety of continuing said Bureau, or if 
any obligation exists upon the part of the United States requiring the continuance 
thereof. ' ' 

"International LTnion of American Republics: For Commercial Biu'eau of Ameri- 
can Republics, eight thousand dollars." 

The Fifty-third Congress, third session (U. S. Statutes at Large, p. 825, vol. 28) 
appropriated for the fiscal year 1895-96 as follows: 

"Commercial Bureau of "American Republics, twenty-eight thousand dollars: Pro- 
vided, That any moneys received from sale of the Bureau publications, from rents, 
or other sources, niay be paid into the Treasury as a credit, in addition to the 
appropriation, and may be drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the Secretary of 
State for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the Bureau." 

The Fifty-fourth Congress, first session (U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. 29, p. 38), 
appropriated as follows for the fiscal year 1896-97: 

" Commercial Bureau of the American Republics, twenty-eight thousand dollars: 
Provided, That any moneys received from sale of the Bureau publications, from 
rents, or other sources shall be paid into the Treasury as a credit in addition to the 
appropriation, and may be drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the Secretary of 
State for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the Bureau." 

(11) 



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The Fifty-fourtli Congress, second session (U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. 29, p. 590), 
appropriated as follows for the liseal year 1897-98: 

" Coninieroial Bureau of American Republics, twenty-eight thousand dollars: Pro- 
vided, That any moneys received from sale of the Bureau publications, from rents, or 
other source- shall be paid intotheTreasury as a credit in addition to the appropriation, 
and may be drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the Secretary of State for the purpose 
of meeting the expenses of the Bureau: Prorided, That the provisions of the fifth 
and sixth sections of the act entitled 'An act establishing post routes, and for other 
purposes,' approved March three, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, for the trans- 
mission of official mail matter be, and they are hereby, extended and made appli- 
cable to all official mail matter of the Bureau of the American Republics established 
in Washington by recommendation of the International American Conference, rep- 
resenting the International Union of American Republics." 

The Fifty-fifth Congress, second session (U. S. Stat. L., vol. 30, p. 273), appro- 
priated as follows for the fiscal year 1898-99: 

"Commercial Bureau of xlmerican Republics, thirty-six thousand dollars: Provided, 
That any moneys received from sale of the Bureau publications, from rents, or other 
sources shall be paid into the Treasury as a credit in addition to the appropriation, 
and may be drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the Secretary of State for the pur- 
pose of u:ieeting the expenses of the Bureau." 

The Fifty-fifth Congress, third session (U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. 30, p. -833), 
appropriated as follows for the fiscal year 1899-1900: 

"Commercial Bureau of American Republics, thirty-six thousand dollars: Provided, 
That any moneys received from the other American Republics for the support of the 
Bureau, or from the sale of the Bureau publications, from rents, or other sources, 
shall be paid into the Treasury as a credit in addition to the appropriation, and may 
be drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the Secretary of State for the purpose of 
meeting the expenses of the Bureau." 

The Fifty-sixth Congress, first session (U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. 31, p. 71), 
appropriated as follows for the fiscal year 1900-1901 : 

" Commercial Bureau of American Republics, thirty-six thousand dollars: Provided, 
That any moneys received from the other American Republics for the support of the 
Bureau, or from the sale of the Bureau publications, from rents, or other sources, 
shall be paid into the Treasury as a credit in addition to the appropriation, and may 
be drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the Secretary of State for the purpose of 
meeting the expenses of the Bureau: And provided further, That the Public Printer 
be, and is hereby, authorized to print an edition of the Monthly Bulletin not to 
exceed five thousand coj^ies for distribution hy the Bureau every month during the 
fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one." 

The appropriations made by the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses were 
identical with the one last above ciuoted. 



Appendix No. III. 

At a meeting of all the representatives of the countries forming the Union of 
American Republics, held on the 1st of x\pril, 1896, the Secretary of State of the 
United States was unanimously requested to appoint a committee of five members 
intrusted with drawing up a plan for the improvement of the work of the Bureau of 
the Amei'ican Republics. 

The appointment was made by the Secretary of State, as follows: 
Seiior Don Matias Romero, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of 
Mexico. 

SeiTior Don Salv. Mendonga, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of 
Brazil. 

Seiior Don Jose Andrade, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of 
Venezuela. 

Seiior Don Ant. Lazo, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Gua- 
temala. 
Seiior Don J. B. Calvo, then charge d'affaires of Costa Rica. 

The committee made its report on June 4, 1896, the same having been adopted by 
all the representatives. 

Then the executive committee was created to be composed of five members, the 
Secretary of Staite of the United States being always ex officio the chairman, the 
other four members to serve their tenns by turns in the alphabetical order of the names 
of their nations in the French language. 
The executive committee, therefore, was composed for the year 1896-97 as follows: 
Etats Unis d'Amerique. 
Etats Unis de Bresil. 
Etats Unis de Mexique. 
Etats Unis de Venezuela. 
Nation Argentine. 
The Argentine Republic and Mexico having intended to withdraw from the union, 
the minit<ters from those countries, Messrs. Merou and Romero, accepted their places 
as members of the executive committee pending the action of their respective 
Governments. 

At the end of the year, June 30, 1897, Minister Mendonga, of Brazil, retired and 
Minister Luis Paz, of Bolivia, came in. The executive committee for the year 
1897-98, was then as follows: 

Etats Unis d'Amerique. 
Etats Unis de Mexique. 
Etats Unis de Venezuela. ' 
Nation Argentine. 
Republique de Bolivie. 
At the end of the year, June 30, 1898, Minister Romero, of Mexico, retired, Chile 
succeeding according to the alphabetical order, but Chile up to that time was not a 
member of the union, and the representative of Colombia was called. 

The executive committee for the year 1898-99 was then to be composed of the 
representatives of the following countries: 
Etats Unis d'Amerique. 
Etats Unis de Venezuela. 
Nation Argentine. 
Republique de Bolivie. 
Republique de Colombie. 
Colombia was in the same condition as Argentina and Mexico in regard to the 
intention to withdraw, but its representative in Washington did not follow the course 
pursued by his colleagues Merou and Romero, and did not accept the appointment. 
For this reason, and in consideration of the continuous absence of the minister of 
Bolivia, the Director of the Bureau, by direction of the Secretary of State, addressed 
a note dated June 24, 1898, to Mr. Calvo, the Costa Rican minister, Costa Rica being 
the next in alphabetic order. Minister Calvo, in a note of the same date, accepted 
the position of a member of the executive committee, but with the understanding 
that he would retire as soon as the representative of Colombia was able to accept the 

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place. The point of view taken in the matter according to the precedent estal)hshed 
in the cases of Argentina and Mexico being that there was no reason why the same 
course, as in regard to those countries, should not be followed in regard to Colombia. 
Moreover, Bolivia was never represented in the executive committee, and the place 
of its representative was kept open for him, his name remaining in the published 
lists of the members of the connnittee. The action of Colombia, JNIexico, or Argen- 
tina in intending to withdraw from the union, as it is well known, was never ac- 
knowledged by the Government of the United States nor any other of the countries 
forming the union. 

Later on the Colombian Government withdrew its objections to continue as a 
member of said union, and its minister joined the committee. 

At the end of the year, June 30, 1899, Venezuela's term lapseil. The representa- 
tives of the following countries to form the executive committee for the vear 1899- 
1900: 

United States of America. 

Argentine Republic. 

Bolivia. 

Colombia. 

Costa Rica. 
At the end of the year, June 30, 1900, the Argentine Republic's term lapsed and 
Minister Wilde retired. 

As it can be noted, the name of the minister from Bolivia appeared in the Bulletin 
of the Bureau up to March, 1900. Then the Director of the Bureau, in view of the 
continued absence of said representative, suggested that the one from the country 
next in the alphabetic order should be called to complete the number of which the 
committee shall be composed. The minister from Ecuador being absent the appoint- 
ment was sent to the minister from Guatemala. 

Bolivia has now a new representative in Washington. Its term in the executive 
committee ends June 30, 1901. 



ALPHABETICAL LIST. 



Etats Unis d'Amerique. 
Etats Unis du Bresil. 
Etats Unis du Mexique. 
Etats Unis de A'enezuela. 
Nation Argentine. 
Republique de Bolivie. 
Republique du Chile. 
Republique de la Colombie. 
Republique de Costa Rica. 
Republique de I'Equateur. 



Republique de Guatemala. 
Republique d' Haiti. 
Republique de Honduras. 
Republique de Nicaragua. 
Republique du Paragnay. 
Republique du Peru. 
Republique de St. Domingue. 
Republique de Salvador. 
Republique Oriental de 1' Uruguay, 



Report as Adopted, 

To the honorable Secretary of State of the United States: 

The committee appointed by you, authorized by the meeting of the union held on 
the 1st of April, 1896, and intrusted with drawing up a j^lan for the improvement of 
the work of the Bureau of the American Republics, after careful consideration of 
the subject in several meetings — 

Considering, That the purpose of the resolution of March 29, 1890, of the Inter- 
national American conference was to establish a Bureau which would be entirely 
international in character; 

Considering, That in view of such purpose it is desirable that the citizens of the 
various countries composing the union should be equally eligible to all positions in 
said Bureau through competitive examination; 

Considering, That it would be advantageous to the common interest to widen the 
scope of the work of the Bureau without departing from the bases of its original 
organization, by making it the organ of the union, not only for the purpose of col- 
lecting and disseminating commercial information, but of dealing with all subjects 
relating to economic life and growth of the countries of the union; 

Considering, That such enlargement of the work of the Bureau will necessitate an 
increase of expenditures, and that, as at the same time it is desirable not to exceed 
the limits of the original estimate of expense, it becomes necessary to provide means 
for obtaining revenue to meet such increased expenditures; 



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Considering, That bj' the admission of advertisements in the publications of the 
Bureau sufficient revenue can probably be obtained to warrant increased expenditure — 

Recommends that the Secretary of State, to give due effect to the requirements of 
clause 15 of the resolution under which the Bureau was established, shall formulate 
regulations for its government and work according to the plan hereinafter submitted; 

That such regulations shall be communicated to the representatives of the coun- 
tries constituting the union in a general meeting for their knowledge; 

That in order to provide for successfully carrying into effect the provisions of the 
regulations, the Secretary of State shall instruct the Director of the Bureau of the 
American Republics to take immediate action looking to the insertion of advertise- 
ments in the publications of the Bureau. 

The committee does not believe it advisable to recommend at present an increase 
of appropriation for the support of the Bureau, and therefore retains for the present 
the same officers and salaries that were established in the act of organization. 

PLAN RECOMMENDED. 

1. The Bureau of the American Republics is, for all purposes, to be considered as 
an international organization. 

The appointments in the future for all positions in the Bureau for which literary 
or scientific qualifications are required shall be made by the Secretary of State of the 
United States conformably to the following rules: 

(o) All applicants for positions in the Bureau shall be examined by a board com- 
posed of three members of the executive committee, or persons designated by them, 
and two examiners appointed by the Secretary of State of the United States. The 
board shall send to the Secretary of State a list of the three names of the applicants 
for each position who from their written and oral examinations shall show them- 
selves best qualified to fill such place. From this list the Secretary of State shall 
select one name for the appointment. In case less than three candidates are approved 
by the examiners, the name or names of only such as are approved shall be pre- 
sented to the Secretary of State for appointment. Citizens of any of the countries 
constituting the union may be candidates for any position in the Bureau, provided 
they shall be able to pass an examination in the English language and have the 
other qualifications hereafter prescribed. 

(6) Every official of the Bureau appointed by the Secretary of State shall be eligi- 
ble to promotion, and shall pass an examination by the examining board as above 
constituted before such promotion can be made. 

(c) Every official of the Bureau appointed by the Secretary of State shall be 
exempt from dismissal from office by him except for just cause affecting his general 
character or his capacity and efficiency in the discharge of his duties. 

(rf) Every official or employee of the Bureau shall be entitled to thirty days leave 
of absence during each year, with full pay, and such leaves shall be granted by turns 
in each class. 

(e) Places in the Bureau not requiring literary or scientific qualifications, such as 
those of janitor, messenger, porter, etc., shall be filled by the Director of the Bureau, 
who shall appoint to or remove from such places with sole reference to the efficient 
discharge of the services to be rendered. 

2. A permanent executive committee is created, to be composed of five of the 
representatives of the American nations constituting the union. Four of these shall 
be called to serve ex officio in said capacity by turns, in the alphabetic order of the 
names of their nations in one of the four languages of the union, previously selected 
by lot, at a meeting of the representatives of the union, the Secretary of State of the 
United States being always ex officio a member. At the end of the first year the 
first member of the committee shall be replaced by the fifth representative in 
the alphabetic list, the second by the sixth at the end of the second year, and so on 
in rotation from year to year. The executive committee shall convene in ordinary 
session on the first Monday of every month and in extraordinary session whenever 
invited by the Secretary of State, and may, when so requested bj^ a majority of its 
members, call a meeting of all the representatives of the union. The Secretary of 
State may also call such meeting whenever he shall deem proper to do so., 

(a) The executive committee shall act as a board of supervision of the administra- 
tion of the Bureau. 

(6) It shall appoint three of its members, who, personally or by agents designated 
by them, shall form part of the board for the examination of applicants for positions 
in the Bureau, as hereinbefore provided. 

(c) It shall audit the accounts of the Bureau, either by its members or by proper 
agents selected by them, and consider the estimate submitted by the director of the 
Bureau for the succeeding year. 

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((/) It shall recoiiunend from time to time suoh modifications as, in its judgment, 
shall conduce to the improvement of the work of the Bureau. 

(e) The meml)ers of the executive committee and their substitutes shall serve 
without remuneration in all their functions. 

3. The duties of the officials and employees of the Bureau shall be as follows: 

(rt) The Director shall have general supervision over all the work of the Bureau, 
and require from each of the employees the faithful discharge of his or her particular 
duties. He shall have a book kept, which shall be o])ened at 9 o'clock a. m. on 
every week day, except legal holidays, in which each oflicial and employee as he 
enters in the morning shall inscribe his or her name, with the time of arrival. 
This book shall be kept by the janitor and signed each day by the Director at the 
close of the Bureau at 4 p. m. 

He shall, as soon as possible after the 1st day of July of every year, make a report 
to the Governments forming the union, in which he shall give an account of the work 
of the Bureau for the year last past, and present a detailed account of the receipts 
and expenditures for the said year, and indicate the quotas to be paid by the respec- 
tive countries forming the union. This report shall also include an estimate of the 
receipts and expenditures for the following year, such estimate to be submitted to 
the executive committee for its approval. 

The report shall be sent at once to the representatives of the said countries for trans- 
mission to their respective Governments, for their information in regard to the work 
of the Bureau, and the amount due from them for the support of the Bureau for the 
year last endeci, which amount must be paid to the Secretary of State of the United 
States before the close of December of each year. 

The Director shall ask the Secretary of State to call a meeting of the executive 
committee of the Bureau whenever the said committee shall not, of its own accord, 
have assembled during the space of one month. 

(&) The translators shall make, in their respective languages, all the translations 
necessary for the publications and other work of the Bureau. 

4. The present officials and employees of the Bureau shall continue in the same, 
subject to the provisions of section 1 (c), and all new appointments shall be made on 
examination and in the manner hereinbefore provided. Any vacancy existing or 
occurring in the Bureau before this plan goes into effect shall be temporarily filled 
by some officer or employee of the same designated by the Secretary of State until 
the position is definitely filled in the manner hereinbefore provided. The execu- 
tive committee shall consider and authorize to be made such changes in the number 
of the officers and employees of the Bureau as it may deem advisable for the efficient 
performance of the work of the Bureau and as can be made without increasing the 
appropriations for the support of the Bureau, all new appointments under such 
authorization to be made as hereinbefore provided. 

5. Each Government in the union shall have the right to send at its own expense 
an agent to the Bureau specially intrusted with the duty of furnishing such informa- 
tion in regard to his own country as may be required of him and of obtaining infor- 
mation in relation to the commerce and industries of the United States, or any other 
of the countries constituting the union. Such agent may take the place of the repre- 
sentative of his country in case of prolonged absence of the latter. 

6. The Governments of the nations represented in the union shall be requested to 
send to the Bureau a collection of their laws, whether state or federal, and of any pub- 
lications relating to their geography, industries, commerce, and resources in general, 
or concerning any other subjects tending to increase the information in regard to the 
present condition of said nations, such collections and publications to form the nucleus 
of an international American library. 

7. The publications of the Bureau in the form of monthly bulletins and handbooks 
or monographs shall have reference especially to commercial affairs, as customs duties, 
transportation, budgets, statistics, and to any matter relating to the commerce and 
industries in general of the nations forming the union, and, besides, geographical 
information, discoveries and explorations, and any subject that may extend a knowl- 
edge of the economic condition and resources of said nations. 

8. In conformity with the practice of several nations, both in America and Europe, 
the Director of the Bureau, under the general direction of the executive committee, 
is authorized to arrange for the insertion of private advertisements in the publica- 
tions made by the Bureau. The rates paid for their insertion shall be uniform for 
all the countries of the union. The Director of the Bureau is authorized to sell the 
surplus of the publications to private parties at a price not to exceed 10 per cent 
more than the actual cost of publication. The publications of the Bureau shall be 
made in such languages of the union as the executive committee may from time to 
^time direct. 



Appendix No. IV. 

PLAN ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY MARCH 18, 1899, AT A CONFERENCE OF DIPLO- 
MATIC REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COUNTRIES COMPOSING THE INTERNA- 
TIONAL UNION OF AMERICAN REPUBLICS FOR THE PERMANENT GOVERNMENT 
OF THE BUREAU OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS. 

Whereas experience has shown that the agreement entered into on the 4th of June, 
1896, between the Secretary of State of the United States and the diplomatic repre- 
sentatives in Washington of a majority of the countries of the International Union of 
American Republics for the government of the Bureau representing the union needs 
to be modified in some particular, the following is hereby adopted as a substitute for 
that agreement, and its provisions will hereafter serve for the guidance of the Bureau: 

1. The Bureau of the American Republics will be governed under the supervision 
of the Secretary of State of the United States, with the cooperation and advice of four 
representatives of the other republics composing the International Union, the five 
persons indicated to constitute an executive committee, of which the Secretary of 
State is to be ex-officio chairman, or in his absence the Acting Secretary of State. 
The other four members of the executive committee shall be called to serve in turn 
in the alphabetical order of the official names of their nations in one of the four lan- 
guages of the union previously selected by lot at a meeting of the representatives of 
the union. At the end of each year the first of these four members shall retire, giv- 
ing place to another representative of the union in the same alphabetical order already 
explained, and so on until the next period of succession. 

The present executive committee, having been constituted after the foregoing 
method of appointment and order of alternation, shall continue its existence until 
regularly changed in accordance therewith. 

2. The meetings of the executive committee shall be held from time to time upon 
notice from the chairman or upon the request of a majority of the committee. In 
case of the absence or inability of any of the members representing the countries other 
than the United States his official substitute shall be invited to take his place at meet- 
ings of the committee. At any meeting of the committee three members shall con- 
stitute a quorum for the transaction of business. 

3. The executive committee shall, in the manner hereinafter provided, have the 
power to appoint the Director, secretary, and permanent translators of the Bureau of 
the American Republics, after consideration of the qualifications of the applicants 
for these positions, to fix their salaries, and to dismiss them w-henever it may deem 
advisable. The method of appointment shall be the following: 

In case of a vacancy the executive committee will receive from the chairman the 
applications of candidates or letters of recommendation, and each member of the 
committee is at liberty to propose such names as he may think desirable. From 
these applications and recommendations the committee will select three or more per- 
sons, whom it deems to be qualified for the position, and submit them to the chair- 
man for the selection of one of them, who will then receive a commission from the 
chairman entitling him to hold and discharge the duties of the office, at a specified 
salary, subject to the further will of the committee, provided that it is hereby under- 
stood and agreed that the Director shall be a citizen of the United States. In case of 
the death, permanent disability, or prolonged absence of the Director of the Bureau, 
the executive committee is empowered to suspend the foregoing rules of appoint- 
ment and choose a provisional Director for such time as may be deemed expedient. 
During the temporary absence or disability of the Director the secretary of the 
Bureau will be the Acting Director, but it will be understood that he discharges his 
duties subject to the instructions of the Director, and the executive committee may 
restrict the functions of the Acting Director in such a waj' as may seem to be 
demanded by the immediate interests of the Bureau. 

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4. The other duties of the executive committee are to be those of general supervis- 
ion and perfecting of the management of the Bureau, especially in all matters affect- 
ing the particular requirements or interests of individual members of the union, the 
finances, the business features, and the development of the various branches of the 
work of the Bureau, as indicated by the International American Conference. 

5. The Director shall have immediate control of all the work of the Bureau and of 
the literary, clerical, and laboring forces thereof, and will suggest to the executive 
committee such changes as he may deem judicious and such business engagements as 
he may find desirable to enter into for the benefit of the Bureau. He shall have full 
power" of appointment and dismissal of the officials and employees of the Bureau 
other than the secretary and permanent translators, and of fixing the various rates 
of compensation for their services; but he can make no appointment for a period 
longer than the term of his incumbency. He shall submit to the executive commit- 
tee a report, as soon as possible after the 1st of July of every year, upon the work of 
the Bureau for the year preceding, said report to contain a detailed account of the 
receipts and expenditures for the said year and the amounts of quotas to be paid by 
the respective countries forming the union, as well as an estimate of the receipts and 
expenditures for the following year. 

6. The annual report of the Director, upon approval by the executive committee, 
shall be transmitted to the Secretary of State of the United States and to the ministers 
of foreign affairs of the other countries of the union. 

7. The admission of advertisements in the publications of the Bureau continues to 
be allowed, but not the solicitation of such advertisements or of purchase of the Bureau 
publications upon commissions paid to agents, unless specifically authorized by the 
executive committee. 

8. All moneys received from advertising, sales of publications, or other sources, 
exclusive of the appropriation of the United States Congress, shall be paid as promptly 
as possible to the Secretary of State for deposit in the Treasury of the United States 
to the credit of the Bureau fund, "Keceipts, sales, etc." 

9. No payments shall be made by the Director or any other official of the Bureau 
of the American Republics except upon a check or draft drawn or indorsed to the 
order of the Secretary of State, or upon vouchers drawn upon the disbursing officer 
of the Department of State. 



Appendix No. V. 

REORGANIZATION OF THE BUREAU OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS. 

EESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES 
FOR THE REORGANIZATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OP THE AMERICAN 
REPUBLICS. 

The Governments represented at this conference, realizing the usefulness of the 
International Bureau of the American Republics established in Washington, agree 
that said Bureau shall be governed, for a period of ten years from the date of the 
adjournment of the present conference, by the following regulations, which, how- 
ever, shall be subject to the revision of the next conference of the American Repub- 
lics, or to that of the republics themselves, in accordance with the provisions of 
paragraph 16 of the resolutions adopted by the First International Conference of the 
American Republics on April 14, 1890: 

Article 1. The International Bureau of the American Republics shall be under the 
control of a governing board composed of the diplomatic representatives of all the 
governments' of said republics accredited near the Government of the United States 
of America, and of the Secretary of State of the latter Nation, who shall be the chair- 
man of said governing board. The governing board shall hold a regular meeting 
monthly, except during the months of June, July, and August, and such special 
meetings as may be called by the chairman, either of his own accord or at the request 
of two members of the board. The attendance of five members of said board at any 
regular or special meeting shall be sufficient to constitute a quorum, and to enable 
the board to transact in due form any business within the scope of its authority, and 
to appoint such committees as it may deem proper. 

Art. 2. All the positions in the Bureau shall be filled after an examination of the 
applicants by an exajiiining board composed of three persons, who shall be appointed 
by the governing board. Said applicants shall make their applications by filling 
out the blank forms furnished them by the Director of the Bureau, in which applica- 
tions shall be specified the particular service that it is proposed to render; they shall 
inscribe their names in a register that the Bureau sh^ll keep for that purpose, and in 
which shall be recorded all the particulars relating to the examination, and the 
examining board shall only recommend, for the particular position that is required 
to be filled and which is applied for, those who show their fitness for the same. The 
appointments shall be made by the governing board and shall be signed by the 
chairman. 

Art. 3. The governing board shall, with the -cooperation of the Director of the 
Bureau, prepare annually a detailed estimate of the expenses of the following year. 
This estimate shall be transmitted to each government, together with a statement 
showing the proportion of the amounts that each one of them shall pay, in conformity 
with the agreement of April 14, 1890, and said governments are bound to remit their 
respective quotas to the Secretary of State of the Government of the United States 
of America six months in advance. 

Art. 4. Whenever the governing board shall deem advisable, it shall appoint one 
or two of its members to audit the accounts of the Bureau, and submit to said board 
a report thereof. 

Art. 5. The Bureau shall have authority, through the diplomatic representatives 
in Washington, to correspond with the executive departments of the different Amer- 
ican Republics, and shall furnish to any of said Republics such information as it may 
possess, or that it can obtain, whenever requested to do so. Said Republics agree to 
furnish to the Bureau, so far as may be practicable, the reports that it may request, 
and to send it in due time two copies of each of their official publications, which shall 
be preserved in the library of the Bureau. They agree, furthermore, to furnish to 
the Bureau any other information that its Director may request. 

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Art. 6. The Bureau shall publish a "Monthly Bulletin," which shall be printed 
in the Spanish, English, Portuguese, and French languages, either together or sepa- 
rately, and which shall contain such statistical, commercial, and legislative reports 
as may be of special interest to the inhabitants of the different Republics. The 
Bureau shall also publish pamphlets, maps, geographic and topographic charts, and 
any other matter that the governing board may deem advisable and order published. 

Art. 7. As soon as the advertising contracts now in force shall have expired, the 
Bulletin shall discontinue the publication of advertisements. 

Art. 8: All the publications of the Bureau shall be considered as public docu- 
ments, and shall be carried free in the mails of the several Republics. 

Art. 9. The Bureau shall be especially charged with the performance of all the 
duties imposed upon it by the resolutions adopted by the present international 
conference. 

Art. 10. The Director of the Bureau may attend the meetings of the governing 
board, and of the committees, as well as of those of the international American con- 
ferences, for the purpose of giving information when requested to do so. 

Art. 11. The Bureau shall be the custodian of the archives of the international 
conferences of the American Republics. 

Art. 12. The resolutions of the First International Conference of the American 
Kepublics, adopted April 14, 1890, shall remain in force, in so far as they are not in 
contravention of these regulations; all other resolutions and plans referring to the 
organization of the Bureau are hereby annulled. 

Art. 13. Under the authority of the governing board of the International Union 
of the American Republics, and as a division of the Bureau of said Republics, a Latin- 
American library, to be known as the "Columbus Memorial Library," is hereby 
established. 



Appendix VI, 

FROM REPORT OF TRANSACTIONS OF THE FIRST GENERAL INTERNATIONAL 
SANITARY CONVENTION, WASHINGTON, 1902. 

INTERNATIONAL SANITARY BUREAU, 

On recommendation of the advisory council, the International Sanitary Bureau 
was increased from five to seven members, and the following were appointed mem- 
bers of that Bureau: 

Surg. Gen. Walter Wyman, chairman; Dr. Eduardo Lic^aga, of Mexico; Dr. Eduardo 
Moore, of Chile; Dr. Juan Guiteras, of Cuba; Dr. Juan J. IJlloa, of Costa Rica; Dr. 
Rhett Goode, of the United States; Dr. A. H. Doty, of the United States. 

Doctor Reynolds, of Chicago, offered three resolutions, which were referred to the 
advisory council and were later reported favorably and adopted, as follows: 



AVhereas bubonic plague and other diseases are spread by rats, mice, and other 
lower animals, which to a great extent find sustenance in animal and vegetable 
kitchen wastes, commonly called garbage: Therefore, be it 

Resolved, That all organic waste or garbage should be kept separately on the 
premises until it can be removed, unmixed with anything else, and destroyed. 



Whereas typhoid fever and Asiatic cholera are caused by swallowing food or drink 
contaminated by the discharges of previous cases: Therefore, be it 

Resolved, That it be recognized by this conference that if all the discharges of every 
existing case of typhoid fever and Asiatic cholera were instantly disinfected, typhoid 
^ver and Asiatic cholera would cease to be a menace to the world. 



Whereas the Second American International Conference of the Pan-American 
States, held in the City of Mexico, ISIovember, 1901, to January, 1902, provided that a 
sanitary convention convene in Washington within one year from the signing of the 
resolutions on sanitation and quarantine, and shall elect an International Sanitary 
Bureau, with permanent headquarters at Washington, for the purpose of rendering 
effective service to the different Republics represented in this convention: It is 
hereby 

Resolved: 

First. That it shall be the duty of the International Sanitary Bureau to urge each 
Republic to promptly and regularly transmit to said Bureau all data of every char- 
acter relative to the sanitary conditions of their respective ports and territories. 

Second. And to furnish said Bureau every opportunity and aid for a thorough, care- 
ful, and scientific study and investigation of any outbreaks of pestilential diseases 
which may occur within the territory of any of the said Republics. 

Third. R is further resolved, That it shall be the duty of the International Sanitary 
Bureau to lend its best aid and experience toward the widest possible protection of 
the public health of each of the said Republics in order that disease may be elimi- 
nated and that commerce between said Republics may be facilitated. 

Fourth. R is further resolved bj/ this convention. That it shall be the duty of the Inter- 
national Sanitary Bureau to encourage and aid or enforce in all proper ways the sani- 
tation of seaports, including the sanitary improvements of harbors, sewerage, drainage 
of the soil, paving, elimination of infection from buildings, and the destruction of 
mosquitoes and other vermin. 

Fifth. R is also recommended hy iltis convention, That in order to carry out the above 
measures, a fund of $5,000 shall be collected by the Bureau of American Republics 
in accordance with paragraph 7 of the resolutions of the Second International Ameri- 
can Conference above referred to. 

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Appendix VII. 

COLUMBUS MEMORIAL LIBRARY 

EXTKACT FROM THE MINUTES OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN CONFERENCE, 

APRIL 18, 1890. 

Mr. Martinez Silva. Mr. President, ever since my distinguished colleague, Mr. 
Mendon(;a, spoke at a private gathering of the appropriateness and expedience of 
erecting a monument to commemorate the assembling of the International Confer- 
ence of American States the honorabie delegates seem to have been unanimously of 
the oi^inion that something of the sort ought to be done. But it has since occurred 
to me that among the various embarrassments which would be encountered in the 
attempt to carry out the suggestion it would be very difficult to select a model which 
all would accept, and that discussions and delays would arise — discussions and delays 
which might at last lead to that worst result, that nothing should be done. 

With this fear in my mind, and thinking, furthermore, that the memorial to be 
erected ought to be something at once useful and made up of various elements, to 
which each government might contribute independently, it occurred to me that the 
only plan which would satisfy all these requirements was the establishment in Wash- 
ington of a memorial library, to which each government could send, on its own 
account, the most complete collection possible of historical, literary, and geographi- 
cal works, laws, official reports, maps, etc., so that the results of intellectual and sci- 
entific labor in all America might be collected together under a single roof. 

That would be a monument more lasting and more noble than any in bronze or 
marble; because, in the first place, such a memorial would redound to our honor and 
help to make the Spanish-American nations known, while at the same time it would 
be very agreeable to the United States to have erected in Washington the library 
which I propose. It will gradually be enriched and enlarged, day by day, because 
the several Governments will take care to transmit every new work which may be 
published in their respective countries, until at last it will become so complete a col- 
lection that whoever shall desire to pursue any study concerning America will come 
to Washington to do it; even from Europe itself students would have to come for any 
special study concerning these countries. We are so disconnected in America, there 
are so many difficulties in the way of communication, that it may be said that we do 
not know each other. It is, for instance, almost impossible in Bogota to procure a 
book published in the Argentine Republic, and I believe that the same is the case in 
the Argentine Republic respecting the publications of Bogota. Let us suppose that a 
person is desirous of writing on America; how could he collect data as correct and 
complete as the case demands? He would have to go from country to country, spend- 
ing much money and time to attain his object; but if there be a library such as I 
propose, then all those dedicating themselves to such research or in need of data can 
come here and find what they want. 

Catalogues of this library would be distributed in all the countries of America and 
Europe, so that the people of all parts of the world would know what could here be 
obtained. It would be, moreover, of great usefulness for the permanent Spanish- 
American legations in Washington. All of the honorable delegates may have had 
occasion to note that great difficulties have presented themselves each time that 
information or a book respecting our countries is needed here. 

It would also be of great value to the Government of the United States, for it 
would stimulate the study of those nations in this country. So that my idea reduces 
itself to the establishment in Washington, in some building or apartment which could 
be provided for by the Government of the United States, of a Portuguese-Spanish- 
American library, each Government sending a collection, as complete as possible, of 
geographical charts, historical, statistical, and literary works, etc., enriching this 
library from year to year with the new publications which may be issued by the 
American nations. At the outset we might collect here 15,000 or 20,000 volumes, 
but in the course of twenty years this library will have an importance unrivaled in 
the world. 

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I would desire to propose also that each Government should send its share of books 
in time for the library to be publicly dedicated on the anniversary of the discovery 
of America. 

I had not the time to put this proposition in writing, and I present it in this crude 
state to the Conference, but if the idea is approved I shall take the liberty to submit 
it to the chair in writing in the form in which it should be communicated to the 
Governments. 

* * * * * " * ■ * 

Mr. BoLET Peraza. I hold that this offspring of a noble heart and enlightened 
-mind should not be taken from its originator, consequently I am not going to offer 
any amendment, but suggest to the honorable delegate who has expressed the idea 
to baptize this library with the name of "The Columbus Library." 

Mr. Martinez Silva. It is unnecesaary to state that I accept with much pleasure 
the happy suggestion of my distinguished colleague from Venezuela. 

The President. If no other delegate asks the floor, the roll will be called. 

The roll was called. 

The President. The resolution has been unanimously approved. 

EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF THE SESSION OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFER- 
ENCE OF AMERICAN STATES, JANUARY 24, 1902. 

His Excellency Seiior Calvo, delegate of Costa Rica, presented a proposition con- 
cerning the creation of a library in connection with the International Bureau of the 
American Republics. He requested that it might be considered as an additional 
article to the resolutions previously approved, and that all formal procedure might 
be dispensed with. 

His excellency the chairman announced that the motion would be considered at 
the afternoon session, conformably to the following order of the day: 

,;• -X- * * -X- •» -A- 

The proposition of Seilor Calvo, delegate of Costa Rica, that a Latin-American 
library, to be known as the Columbus Library, should be founded under the author- 
ity of the governing board of the International Union of the American Republics 
and as a section of the Bureau of said Republics, in order to commemorate the assem- 
bling of the first and second International Conferences of American States, was read. 

The conference unanimously agreed that it should be given immediate consideration. 

Upon discussion, Mr. Foster said that his delegation heartily supported the resolu- 
tion providing for the collection of valuable books and documents relative to the 
American Republics, which should, in the course of time, form the most important 
collection in the world, and which should be a noble record of the persons who were 
no longer living and of those who still lived whose efforts had contributed to the 
development of the International Bureau of the American Republics. He stated 
further that the American delegation felt proud that one of its great statesmen 
had occupied himself actively and successfully in its organization, and that his 
efforts had been seconded by other men of high intelligence who represented the 
sister Republics of this hemisphere, among whom Don Matias Romero tigured con- 
spicuoush^, and who, in this case as in many others requiring tact of a political 
order, had impressed thereon the seal of a statesman and consummate diplomat as 
well as of an individual of the finest honor and highest intelligence, and whose 
ideals had elevated the consideration of matters of small importance. He added 
that he felt sure that the Conference would find itself disposed to concede the impor- 
tance of this resolution, which had for its high purpose the establishment of a 
library as an eternal record to the memory of Don Matias Romero; to the great 
statesman, James G. Blaine, and to those who had labored so effectively, success- 
fully, patiently, and energetically, Messrs. Mendon(;a, Merou, Leger, Martinez Silva, 
Guachalla, Carbo, Lazo Arriaga, and particularly Sen or Calvo, who, in his entire 
devotion to the work, had distinguished himself among his fellows. 

Senor Calvo thanked Mr. Foster for his reference to him, and added that, in response 
to certain observations made to him privately by one of the Mexican delegation, he 
wished to explain that as the libraries of Congress and of the Department of State 
in Washington contained all works published in the United States, it seemed unnec- 
essary to include such works in the library annexed to the Bureau of American 
Republics, and it had, therefore, been limited solely to Latin-American publications. 

The proposition was approved unanimously and the chairman ordered it sent to 
the Commission on Editing. 



Appendix No. VIII. 

PLAN FOE THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BUILDING IN WASHINGTON FOR THE 
INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS. 

[Extract from the minutes of a session of the governing board held on May 23, 1903.] 

The secretary read the report of the buildino committee, after which the Director, 
as chairman oi the committee, stated tiiat he thought the board might like to know 
how it had arri ved at tlie conclusion adopted in this report. It iiad considered 
various methods for securing the property and erecting on it the building contem- 
plated; the first was of negotiating for a loan with some Washington capitalists, and 
of extinguishing the debt thus incurred by a gradual amortization, to be taken out 
of the ordinary funds appropriated by the different Governments for the support of 
the Bureau. The committee had found no disposition on the part of those addressed 
in the matter of accepting this plan, as the International Union of the American 
Eepublics had no existence juridique, the Secretary of State, for examijle, could not 
engage the credit of the United States in this matter, and it was presumable that the 
Governments of tnost of the other Republics, if not all, were in the same position. 

Another method suggested was to secure the purchase of the land and the erection 
of the building by local capitalists, and for the union to acquire ownership in the 
same manner as contemplated in the first method considered. This also was open 
to the same objections. Further argument against these two methods and any other 
of a similar nature was that many of the representatives did not think the borrowing 
of money by the union for such purpose was compatible with the dignity of the 
States they represent. Tlie committee was therefore naturally led to adopt the con- 
clusion embodied in their report. 

The Director stated that he had looked at various pieces of property for sale within 
a radius of half a mile of the Department of State, and found that one or two desira- 
ble locations could be secured for about ;i^2..50 a foot. It was on that basis for the 
purchase that the estimates of the committee were based. The necessary ground 
would cost §20,000, roughly. He added that it had been estimated by architects, to 
whom the requirements for the proposed building had been submitted, that it would 
cost from $70,000 to §cSO,000, without interior fittings. One hundred and twenty-five 
thousand dollars therefore seemed sufficient for all present requirements, with space 
for a library of .50,000 volumes, and additional ground on which a further extension 
of the library could be made, so that several hundred tluiusand volumes could be 
stored away in it. 

The minister from Guatemala. Mr. Lazo Arriaga, said that the statement of the 
Director is accurate in every way and has the approval of the committee. He would 
like to add that the intention of the committee has not been to reach a decision at 
this meeting as to location and style of building, but only a^ to the method of rais- 
ing the amount of money required. When the various governments have accepted 
the plan now submitted, these que.stions can be considered by the board. 

The minister from Argentina said he thought the idea embodied in the report was 
excellent, and it would have all his support; he would write immediately to his Gov- 
ernment for its decision. Such a building, he thought, would be a materialization of 
the ideas of the founders of the Bureau. 

The minister from Costa Rica supported the views of the minister from Argentina, 
and said that the method suggested of asking the acceptance of the various govern- 
ments to appropriate the money in the manner indicated in the report of the com- 
mittee was agreeable to him. 

The Argentine minister further suggested th:tt, in his opinion, it would materially 
advance the prompt consideration of the suggestion contained in the report of the 
committee if the Secretary of State would instruct the diplomatic representatives of 
the United States in the various states of the union to bring it to the attention of the 
governments to which they are accredited, and inform them that it has the heartiest 
support of the United States. 

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This the Secretary of State said he would take much pleasure in doing. 

The Secretary of State then said: 

"I would say for myself that the plan commends itself to me most strongly, and I 
am sure the President will be of the same mind, that it is an excellent idea. The 
union has been in existence for thirteen years — long enough to demonstrate that, 
although it may not have accomplished as many things as some may have hoped, it 
has been of substantial benefit to all of us, and we can not think for a moment of 
allowing it to fall into desuetude or to give up the hope of its continued progress and 
development for the common benefit. I shall take great pleasure in laying the sug- 
gestion contained in the report before the President and urging him to accept it, and 
as soon as Congress comes together next winter to make a request for the appropria- 
tion which falls to the United States. 

"I think we have a right to conclude from our Qxperience of the last few years and 
from all that has been accomplished that there are possibilities of great and perma- 
nent benefit to all the Republics in this institution, and it will be a source of gratifi- 
cation to all of us to know that we have had something to do with its founding, and 
not least of the pleasures of our recollections will be that of the close associations 
we have formed through it. Many of the pleasantest recollections of my declining 
years will be the personal acquaintances and friendships which I have made in these 
meetings of the governing board of the International Union of the American Repub- 
lics. " 

The minister from Costa Rica then moved that the report of the building com- 
mittee be accepted. 

This motion was seconded by the minister from Cuba, and was unanimously 
adopted. 

The minister from Costa Rica stated, on voting, that he was authorized by the 
representatives of Nicai'agua and Honduras to vote in the same sense for them. Pie 
also stated that the minister from Salvador had requested him to state that he would 
accept the conclusions reached bj' the majority. 

The views of the ambassador from Mexico on the proposition being deemed of 
very great importance, it was decided that the Director would submit to Senor de 
Azpiroz the minutes of the meeting and secure an expression of his views; if the 
ambassador desired to make anj' remarks on the subject, they could be added to the 
minutes of the present meeting. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

The ambassador from Mexico, having been shown the report of the committee and 
the minutes of the meeting by the secretary of the Bureau, declared that if he had 
been present he w'ould have seconded in all its parts everything that was declared by 
the representatives of the other Republics, and consequently he requests to be con- 
sidered present to the effect of adding his vote to that of the rest. 

To the Secretary of State, Chairman, and Members of tlie Governing Board of the Interna- 
tional Union of American Republics: 

The Columbus Memorial Library, created by the Second International American 
Conference at Mexico, has grown with such rapidity that even at the present time 
the space which can be given it in the temporary quarters now occupied by the 
International Bureau of the American Republics is found entirely inadequate. The 
constantly increasing public which avails itself of this library proves its great value 
and usefulness and makes it necessary that safe and commodious quarters should be 
secured for it. This fact, together with the desirability of having rooms where the 
various international boards in which the union is interested can hold their meet- 
ings, and the necessity for the offices of the International Bureau to be in close 
proximity to the library, impelled the governing board to consider a plan for erect- 
ing a permanent building for these purposes. At a meeting held on January 5 last 
it appointed a committee for the purpose of inquiring into and reporting on this 
matter. 

The committee has the honor to make the following report: 

Having examined the various suggestions made concerning the erection of a build- 
ing for the International Bureau of the American Republics and the Columbus 
Library, it is of opinion that the only feasible plan by which this end could be secured 
is for each one of the powers composing the union to oljligate itself to contribute a 
specific sum, calculated in the same manner as is done for the annual appropriations 
for the maintenance of the Bureau. The cost of the buildings and fittings should be, 
in the opinion of the committee, $125,000. Annexed to the present report is a table 
showing the sums which each State would have to contribute on the basis adopted 
by the committee. 



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The committee is further of opinio )n tliat the requirements for the building are as 
shown in the annexed tentative sketch, which provides only the minimum space 
desirable for the i)urpose in view. 

If the couclusionH here reached are acceptable to the board, the committee has 
further to reijui'St that each one of tiie representatives of the powers comjjosing the 
union will transmit them without delay to his Government and endeavor to secure 
its answer before the 1st of October, when further steps can l)e taken to carry out the 
desired end. 

Washington, D. C, May 21, 1903. 

Antonio Lazo Arriaga. 

J. N. Leger. 

W. W. Rock n ILL. 



Quota which each government would'have to contribute toward the fund of §125,000 for the 
erection of a huikling for the International Bureau of the American Repuhllcfi. 





Population. 


Quota. 


j 


Population. 


Quota. 


Argentina 


4,044,911 
1,816,271 
16, 330, 216 
2, 712, 145 
4, 000, 000 

294, 941 
1, 572, 845 

610, 000 
1,271,861 
1,364,678 
1, 200, 000 


$3, 778. 33 
1,696. .51 

15, 254. 18 
2, ,533. 37 
3, 736. 38 
275. 41 
1,469.12 
569. 71 
1,187.97 
1,277.67 
1, 120. 84 


Honduras 


398, 877 
13, 570, 545 


1372 50 


Bolivia 


Mexico 

Nicaragua 


V? ene, i'> 


Brazil 


423,200 1 395 22 


Chile 


635,571 j 593.60 
2,971,844 2,775.96 


Colombia 


Peru 


Costa Rica 


1,006.848 940.41 


Cuba 


United States 


76,303,387 | 71,275.58 
964,104 900.49 


Dominican Republic . . . 


Uruguay 


Ecuador 




2 323 .5'-'7 2 170 83 




Total 




Haiti 


133,815,771 I'W nnn nn 











[Senate document No. 14, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session.] 

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State looking to the payment 
of this Government's quota of a fund to be contributed by the governments forming 
the International Union of American Republics for the erection of a building in the 
city of Washington for the use of the- Bureau of the American Republics. 

I approve the recommendations made by the Secretary of State and strongly 
recommend the matter to the favorable consideration of Congress. 

Theodore Roosevelt. 

White House, December 11, 1903. 



The President: 

The governing board of the International Union of American Republics, which 
is compo.sed of the diplomatic representatives of the governments of all the American 
Republics accredited to the Government of the United States, and the Secretary of 
State, agreed by a unanimous vote in the regular meeting of Januarj^ 5, 1903, that it 
was highly desirable that permanent quarters be provided for the International Bureau 
of the American Republics. This Bureau ever since its creation about thirteen years 
ago has occupied a rented building, which is now inadequate not only for the clerical 
force of the Bureau but for the large and ever increasing library which the Inter- 
national Conference of American States at Mexico expressed itself as particularly 
desirous of seeing augmented and made of more use to the public. 

At a subsequent meeting, held on May 23, 1903, it was decided that a sum of not 
less than $125,000 would be necessary for the purchase of the ground and erection of 
a building large enough for the purpose in view, and it was suggested that the various 
States composing the International Union of American Republics should contribute 
to said fund on the same basis as that now in force between the American Republics 
for the maintenance of the International Bureau. 

This decision of the governing board was communicated by the Department of 
State to the various governments, and the board has since been informed by fifteen 
of the governments that they will take immediate action to have their specified 
quotas appropriated by the legislatures and transmitted to the United States. Two 
of the governments have already paid the full amount of their quotas. 



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Under the agreement the share of the United States is $71,275.58, and I strongly 
recommend that Congress be asked to appropriate this sum for the purpose men- 
tioned. It is desirable that the appropriation should be made immediately available, 
and subject to the order of the Secretary of State. 

Considering the profound interest which the Goveri^ment of the United States has 
always taken in the promotion of harmony and closer relations with the American 
States through the International Union of American Republics, and the fact as well 
that the International Bureau, which is the active agency of the union, is located in 
the capital of the United States, it would seem that this Government should do more 
than simply contribute its share toward the building. 1 therefore make the further 
recommendation that Congress be asked to appropriate an additional $50,000 for the 
purchase of a suitable lot of ground, in proximity to the other public buildings at 
Washington, on which to erect the building. 

Respectfully submitted. 

John Hay. 

Depabtment op State, 

Washington, December 9, 1903. 



Appendix No, IX. 

BY-LAWS, 

The following articles, drawn in conformity with the resolutions adopted by the 
First International American Conference on iipril 14, 1890, and by the second con- 
ference on January 29, 1902, establishino; the "International Bureau of the American 
Republics" in Washington, and with the resolutions that have been adopted from 
time to time by the governing board as to the government of the Bureau, shall 
constitute the by-laws of said Bureau: 

Article I. — The governing board. 

The governing board shall hold regular monthly meetings, except during the 
months of June, July, and August, and such special meetings as may be called by 
the chairman, either of his own accord or at the request of two members of the 
board. 

Calls for special meetings shall state the object of such meeting, and shall be made 
at least three days before the date set for it, except in case of great urgency. 

The attendance of five members of the board shall be sufficient to constitute a 
quorum. 

Any member of the board may represent by proxy any other member of the board 
in specific cases and upon exhibition of a written authority to do so. He may also 
represent the government of another country in the union when he has special 
powers to do so, even when he is not the diplomatic representative of such country. 

When, during the debate upon a question, one of the members of the board should 
request that a second discussion be had, such request shall be granted without 
further proceedings, upon the conclusion of the first discussion. But the second 
discussion shall not take place until the next meeting of the board. 

Before the approval of the minutes of any meeting the resolutions passed at that 
meeting may be reconsidered upon the request of two of the members of the board. 

Before the 30th day of June each year the governing board shall appoint a com- 
mittee, of which the Director of the Bureau shall be a member, for the purpose of 
preparing the estimate of the revenues and expenditures of the Bureau for the ensu- 
ing year, to contain a detailed statement of both the regular and estimated revenues 
and of the expenditures to be made, a list of the employees of the Bureau and their 
respective salaries, and other matters of interest. 

Such estimate shall be submitted to the members of the board one week, at least, 
before the meeting when it is to be discussed, and, upon approval, the estimate shall 
then be transmitted to the governments of the union, with the statement of their 
respective quotas. 

Aeticle II. — The committees. 

At the regular October meeting each year the governing board shall appoint four 
committees of three or more members to act as permanent committees on the internal 
regulations of the Bureau, accounts, library, the Bulletin and other publications. 

Each of the standing committees shall, as soon as possible after its appointment, 
classify its members by lot into two classes, one of which shall hold office for two 
years and the other for one year, and the committees shall thereafter be appointed 
for two years, and no member whose term of office shall have expired shall be reap- 
pointed until after the lapse of at least one year. 

Said committees shall report on the matters under their respective charges as often 
as circumstances or the resolutions of the governing board may demand. 

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Article III. — The personnel. 

The personnel of the Bureau shall consist of a Director, a secretary, a chief clerk, 
a librarian, and accountant, and such translators and other emplovees as the governino- 
board may direct. " * 

. All employees besides their specific duties shall discharge such other duties as the 
Director may assign to them. 

Office hours shall be the same governing the Department of State of the United 
States. 

All employees shall be entitled to one month vacation each yeat. 

Leave not to exceed two months may be granted employees," without pay. But in 
case of sickness a month may be granted with pay. 

Absence for six consecutive days without leave, and without good and sufficient 
cause to be duly established, and repeated absence as aforesaid of one or two days, as 
well as negligence, insubordination, and other offenses, shall cause summary disrnissal 
of the employee. 

The Bureau shall have a register wherein a record shall be kept of the absences of 
all employees, either on leave, by reason of sickness, or any other cause. In con- 
formity with the record shown in the register, the time each employee has been 
absent without cause shall be deducted from the annual leave of said employee. 

The Bureau shall have under its care and custody the archives of the International 
Conferences of the American Republics. 

Article IV. — The Director. 

The Director, in liis capacity as the chief officer of the Bureau, shall have under his 
control all the affairs of the Bureau under the immediate supervision of the governing 
board. 

He shall correspond with the governments of the union through their respective 
diplomatic representatives in Washington. 

He may, in an advisory capacity, attend the meetings of the governing board, the 
meetings of the committees as well as the sessions of the international conferences of 
the countries of the union for the purpose of giving information when requested to 
do so. 

He shall prepare the internal regulations governing the employees of the Bureau 
and report to the governing board on the efficiency of said employees. The Director 
shall have power to suspend any of said employees for misconduct or negligence in 
the discharge of his or her duties. 

He shall appoint or remove the messengers and other minor employees. 

He shall supervise the accuracy of the receipts and expenditures of the Bureau, 
being directly responsible therefor. 

He shall supervise the publication of the Monthly Bulletin and other publications 
of the Bureau, and in the case of publications relating particularly to any one coun- 
try of the union, he shall consult on the matter with the respective diplomatic 
representative. 

_ He shall sign orders for payment in conformity with the estimate or- the resolu- 
tions adopted by the governing board. 

He may not absent himself unless with the permission of the governing board or 
of the chairman of the board in case of urgency. 

He shall submit an annual report on the progress of the Bureau, its revenues and 
expenditures, the work on hand and that proposed to be done, pointing out every- 
thing that, in his judgment, should be changed for the good of the service and in 
order to enlarge the scope of the Bureau. 

Article V. — The secretary. 

The secretary shall have the control of all matters pertaining to the secretaryship 
of the governing board. 

He shall prepare the general correspondence of the Bureau under the direction of 
the Director. 

He shall compile, classify, and distribute the material for the publications of the 
Bureau, directing them to be printed. 

During the temporary absence of the Director he shall be Acting Director. 

He shall have a special book where a record shall be kept of all the important 
work done in the Bureau, to serve as a basis for the annual repoi't and as a reference 
book whenever necessary. 

The secretary, as the second officer of the Bureau, shall cooperate with the Director 
to the success of its labors. 



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Article VI. — T}ie chief clerk: 

The chief clerk shall have under his immediate control all the employees of the 
Bureau whose duties are not specifically defined. 

He shall have supervision over all matters relating to the internal service of the . 
Bureau. 

He shall be the intermediary between the Dire(;torand the secretary and the other 
employees. 

He shall distribute the woi'k among the employees and supervise its execution. 

He shall supervise, as editor, the publication of the Monthly Bulletin of the Bureau, 
which Mhall be printed in the .Spanish, English, Portuguese, and French languages, 
either jointly or separately, and will contain statistical, commercial, and legislative 
data of special interest to the inhabitants of the different Republics. 

He shall also edit such special bulletins, pamphlets, geographical charts, and other 
publications that the governing board may direct to be published. 

He shall substitute the secretary during his absence, and the Director during the 
absence of the secretary. 

Article VII. — The librarian. 

The librarian shall have the control of the Columbus Memorial Library, the main 
object of which is to collect and preserve all publications dealing with the Latin 
American countries. 

He shall direct the organization of the library by countries and the preparation of 
its catalogues. 

He shall suggest all measures tending to increase the development of the library 
and its usefulness. 

He shall prepare all the correspondence relating to the library, preserving it in 
separate tiles properly indexed. 

Article VIII.- — The accountant. ■ 

The accountant shall keep the account books of the Bureau and shall supervise all 
matters relating to the care and disposal of the funds of the Bureau, subject to the 
rules issued by the Director. 

Artic'le X. — The translators. 

The governing board shall appoint such translators as it may deem proper. The 
translators shall be under the control of a chief translator, appointed by the board, 
who shall supervise and be responsible for all such work as may be prepared in the 
Bureau. 

Article X. — The other employees. 

The employees of the Bureau not above specified shall receive general instructions 
from the Director as regards their resjDective duties, and in the discharge of said 
duties they shall be subject to the prescriptions of the internal regulations of the 
Bureau, under the secretary or the chief clerk, who is their immediate authority, as 
the case may be. 

Article XL — Appointments. 

Citizens of the several countries of the union are equally eligible to all the posi- 
tions in the Bureau, and these positions shall be filled after the examination of the 
applicant before an examining board consisting of three persons appointed by the 
governing board. Applicants shall file their applications on blank forms furnished 
by the Director, wherein specification shall be made of the particular service to be 
rendered and shall enter their names in a register kept for that purpose by the 
Director in which all particulars relative to the examination shall be recorded. 

The examining board shall only recommend such applicants as have shown the 
highest qualifications for the position in question. 

Appointments and removals shall be made by the governing board and notified by 
the chairman. 

Transitory Provision. 

From the date of approval of these regulations all resolutions on rules inconsistent 
therewith adopted by the governing board are abrogated. 



Appendix No. X. 

PTJBLICATIONS OF THE BUREAU OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS, 1891-1906. 

Monthly Bulletin of the Bureau published regularly since 1893, in English, Spanish, 

Portuguese, and French. Average, 300 pages. 
Annual reports of the Director. 

1891. First Report. December 16, 1891. 50 pp. 8°. 

1892. Second Report. January 12, 1893. 76 pp. 8°. 

1893. Third Report. February 15, 1894. 56 pp. English and Spanish. 

. English only, with estimate, by Secretary of State, of appropriations for 

Bureau, 1895. (House Ex. Doc. 124, 2d session. In v. 29.) 

1894. Fourth Report. February 12, 1895. (English, Spanish, and Portuguese.) 

36 pp. 8°. 

1895. Fifth Annual Report [Bulletin 80]. (English, Spanish, and Portuguese.) 

28 pp. 8°. 

1896. Sixth Annual Report of Director. 1896. 1897. 16 pp. [Bulletin 83.] 

1897. Seventh Annual Report of the Director for the year 1897. (English, 

Spanish, and Portuguese. ) February, 1898. 142 pp. 8°. 

1898. Eighth Annual Report of the Director. December, 1898. 89 pp. 8°. 

1899. Ninth Annual Report of the Director for the year 1899. December, 1899. 

36 pp. 8°. 

1900. Tenth Annual Report of the Director for the year 1900. December, 1900. 

37 pp. 8°. 

Reports for years following 1900 published in Monthly Bulletin. 

1. Handbook of American Republics, No. 1. 1891. 50 pp. [Out of print. A 

reprint in No. 2.] 

2. . 2d edition. 486 pp. Ills. 

3. Patent and trade-mark laws of America. 1891. 48 pp. 

4. Money, weights, and measures of the American Republics. 1891. 12 pp. 8°. 

5. Import duties of Mexico. 1891. 46 pp. 8°. 

6. Foreign commerce of the American Republics. 1891. 171pp. 8°. 

7. Handbook of Brazil. 1891. 336 pp. 8°. 

8. Import duties of Brazil. 1891. 139 pp. Ills. 8°. 

9. Handbook of Mexico. 1891. 247 pp. Ills. 

10. Import duties of Cuba and Porto Rico. 1891. V, 114 pp. 8°. 

11. of Costa Rica. 1891. 33 pp. 8°. 

12. of Santo Domingo. 1891. 87 pp. 111. 8°. 

13. Commercial directory of Brazil. 1891. pp. 33-85. 
14. of Venezuela." pp. 313-324. 

15. of Colombia, pp. 95-102. 

16. of Peru. pp. 277-289. 

17. of Chile, pp. 87-94. 

18. of Mexico. 1893. 130 pp. 8°. 

19. of Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Uruguay, pp. 31-32, 111-115, 273-276, 

305-311. 

20. Import duties of Nicaragua. 1891. 34 pp. 8°. 

21. of Mexico (revised), 1891. v, 66 pp. 8°. 

22. of Bolivia. 1891. 51 pp. 8°. 

23. of Salvador. 1891. 39 pp. 8°. 

24. of Honduras. 1891. 42 pp. 111. 8°. 

25. of Ecuador. 1891. 12 pp. Ills. 8°. 

26. Commercial directory of the Argentine Republic. 1893. 29 pp. 8°. 

27. Import duties of Colombia. 1891. 17 pp. Ills. 8°. 

28. Commercial directory of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Salva- 

dor, pp. 103-109, 117-123, 129-133, 265-272, 291-300. 

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29. of Haiti and Santo Domingo, pp. 125-128, 301-303. 

30. First annual report of the Bureau. 

31. Handbook of Costa Rica. 1892. iv, 146 pp. Ills. 

32. of Guatemala. 1892. 194 pp. Ills. 

33. of Colombia. 1892. 138 pp. Ills. 

34. of Venezuela. 1892. 192 pp. Ills. 

35. Breadatuffs in Latin America. 1892. 21 pp. 8°. 

36. Import duties of Venezuela. 1892. 56 pp. 8°. 

37. of British possessions in the West Indies and Spanish America. 1892. 

54 pp. 8°. 

38. Commercial directory of Cuba and Porto Rico. pp. 375-414, 415-422. » 

39. of the European colonies, pp. 325-374. 

40. Mines and mining laws of Latin America. 1892. 348 pp. 8°. 

41. Commercial information concerning the American Republics and colonies. 1892. 

286 pp. 8°. 

42. Newspaper directory of Latin America, pp. 423-458. 

43. Import duties of Guatemala. 1892. 84 pp. 8°. 

44. of the United States. 1892. 61 pp. 8°. 

45. of Peru. 1892. 231 pp. Ills. 8°. 

46. of Chile. 1892. 274 pp. Ills. 8°. 

47. of Uruguay. 1892. v, 248 pp. 8°. 

48. of the Argentine Republic. 1892. iv, 201 pp. 8°. 

49. of Haiti. 1892. iv, 109 pp. 8°. 

50. Handbook of American Republics. No. 3. 1893. 604 pp. Ills. (Revisions 

of Bulletins 1 and 2. ) 

51. of Nicaragua. 1893. 183 pp. Ills. 

52. of Santo Domingo. 1892. (Also in vol. 2, reprints of publications.) 

53. Laws of the American republics relating to immigration and the sale of public 

lands. IV, 199 pp. 8°. 

54. Handbook of Paraguav. (Reprint in V. II.) 

55. of Bolivia. 1893. vi, 413 pp. Map. 

56. Import duties of Guatemala. (Revision of No. 43. Reprint in Monthly Bulletin, 

June, 1894.) 

57. Handbook of Honduras. (Reprint V. 3.) 

58. Handbook of Salvador. (Reprint V. 3.) 

60. Handbook of Peru. (See V. 4.) 

61. of Uruguay. 1893. vi, 347 pp. Ills. 

62. of Haiti. 1893. vi, 240 pp. Ills. 

63. How^ the markets of Latin America may be reached, ix, 505 pp. 1 map. 

64. Handbook of Ecuador. 1892. v, 177 pp. 

67. Handbook of Argentine Republic. 1892. 455 pp. Ills. 

68. Handbook of Guatemala. 1897. 119 pp. Ills. (See also No. 32.) 
Consolidated bulletins: 

V. 1, pt. 1. First annual report; handbook No. 3; Nos. 30, 50, 35. 1883. 

50, 604, 91 pp. Ills. 
V. 5, pt. 1. Tariffs, Nos. 48, 22, 8, 37. 1893. XIX, 201, 255, 139, 54 pp. 
V. 6. Commercial directories of the American Republics. Nos. 13-19, 26, 

28, 29, 38, 39, and 42. 1893. 453 pp. 
Commercial directory of Latin America. 1892. 438 pp. Ills. 

69. Manual de las Republicas Americanas. 1891. 509 pp. Ills. 

70. Import duties of Peru. 1896. 

71. United States tariff act of 1894. 

72. Second annual report of the Director. 1892. January, 1893. 76 pp. 8°. 

73. Third annual report of the Director. February, 1894. 56 pp. (English and 

Spanish. ) 

74. Fourth annual report of the Director. 1895. (English, Spanish, and Portu- 

guese. ) 36 pp. 8°. 

75. Import duties of the United States. 1897. (English.) 

76. Spanish. 

77. Portuguese. 

78. — French. 

79. List of Diplomatic Officers in Latin America. 

80. Fifth annual report of the Bureau. 28 pp. 8°. 

81. Specifications for a Government building in Mexico. 8 pp. 8°. 

83. Sixth annual report of the Bureau. 

84. Handbook of Alaska. 1897. 133 pp. map. 8°. 

85. Handbook of Hawaii. 1897. 180 pp. map. 8°. 



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86. List of publications of the Bureau of the American RepubUcs. 

87. Reciprocity and trade. 1897. 29 pp. 8°. 

88. Spanish- American trade. 1897. 48 pp. 8°. 

90. Newspaper directory of Latin America. 1897. 41 pp. 8°. 

91. Commercial directory of the American Republics. 1897-1898. (With maps.) 

2 V. 4°. 

92. Eighth annual report. 89 pp. 8°. 

93. Handbook of Venezuela. (English. Revised edition.) 1899. 138 pp. 8°. 
(Spanish.) pp. 139-278. 8°. 

94. Worthington reports. (Chile, Argentine, Brazil, and Uruguay. ) 1899. 178 pp. 8°. 

American Constitutions. A compilation of the political constitutions of the inde- 
pendent States of America, in the original text, with English and Spanish 
translations. 1906. 3 vols. 8°. 

Vol. I, now ready, cpntains the constitutions of the Federal Republics of the United 
States of America, of Mexico, of the Argentine Republic, of Brazil, and of Venezuela, 
and of the Republics of Central America, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, 
Costa Rica, and Panama. Vols. II and III will be ready shortly. 

Vol. II will contain the constitutions of the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Uru- 
guay, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Paraguay, and Bolivia. 

Vol. Ill will contain Articles of Confederation" of the United States, First Constitution 
of Venezuela 1811, Fundamental Law of Republic of Colombia 1819, Ditto of 1821, Con- 
stitution of Colombia of 1821, Constitution of Central American Confederation of 1824, 
Constitution of the Grenadian Confederation of 1858, Constitution of United States of 
Colombia of 1863, Pro Constitution of Guatemala of 1876, Convention between United 
States and Republic of Panama for construction of ship canal to connect the waters of 
the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. 

Argentine Republic. A geographical sketch, with special reference to economical 

conditions, actual development, and prospects of future growth. 1903. 

28 ills. 3 maps. 366 pp. 8°. (See also No. 67.) 
Bolivia. Geographical sketch, natural resources, laws, economic conditions, actual 

development, prospects of future growth. Washington, 1904. Ills. 214 

pp. 8°. (See also No. 55.) 
Brazil. A geographical sketch, with special reference to economic conditions. 1901. 

233 pp. 8°. (See also No. 7.) 
El cafe. Su historia, cultivo, beneficio, variedades, produccion, exportacion, impor- 

tacion, consume, etc. Datos extensos presentados al congreso relativo al 

cafe que se reuninl en Neuva York el 1° de octubre de 1902. 167 pp. 8°. 
Coffee. Extensive information and statistics. ( English edition of the above. ) 108 

pp. 8°. 
Code of commercial nomenclature, 1897. English, Spanish, and Portuguese. 670 

pp. 4°. 

Spanish, English, and Portuguese. 640 pp. 4°. 

Portuguese, Spanish, and English. 645 pp. 4°. 

Costa Rica. Law for the adoption of the gold standard. [1896.] 17 pp. 8°. 
Some facts and figures. By J. B. Calvo. Followed by an article entitled 

Costa Rica at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago. 1894. 56 p. 

Map. illus. 8°. 
Cuba. Prepared by Senor Gonzalo de Quesada . . . and approved by the Cuban 

Government, November, 1905. 541 pp. Ills. map. 8°. 
El Ferrocarril Panamericano. Informe presentado al sefior secretario de estado de 

los Estados Unidos de America sobre el resultado de sus trabajos en la 

America Latina. Por Charles M. Pepper .. . Marzo 12del904. 74 pp. 8°. 
Honduras. Geographical sketch, natural resources, laws, economic conditions, actual 

development, prospects of future growth. 1904. 252 pp. 111. 8°. (See 

also No. 57. ) 
Mexican law in regard to medical studies and the practice of medical professions. 

June, 1904. 6 p. 8". (In English and Spanish.) 
Mexico. A geographical sketch. Economic conditions and prospects of future 

development. 1900. 385 pp. 8°. (See also No. 9.) 
Mexico. Geographical sketch, natural resources, laws, economic conditions, actual 

development, prospect of future growth. 1904. 454 pp. 111. 8°. 
Paraguav. Second edition, revised and enlarged, with chapter on the native races. 

1902. 187 pp. 111. Map. 8°. (See also No. 54.) 
Patent and trade- mark laws of the Spanish-American Republics, Brazil, and the 

Republic of Haiti. Revised to August, 1904. 343 pp. 8°. 

Same. Original text. 1904. 415 pp. 8°. 

Peru. Law promulgated March 30, 1904, providing for the construction of four 

lines of railroad. Decree of April 8, 1904, establishing commissions for 

preliminary surveys, etc., of the new lines. 6 pp. 8°. 



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Report on coffee, with special reference to the Costa Rican products. By J. B. Calvo. 

1901. 15 pp. 8°. 
Venezuela. Geographical sketch, natural resources, laws, economic conditions, 

actual development, prospects of future growth. 1904. 111. maps. 608 

pp. 8°. (See also Nos. 34 and 93). 

BIBLIOGRAPHIES. 

Bolivia. Catalogue of books, pamphlets, periodicals, and maps relating to the 

Republic of Bolivia in the Columbus Memorial Librarv. Revised to 

March 31, 1905. 23 pp. 8°. 
Brazil. A list of books, magazine articles, and maps relating to Brazil; 1800-1900. 

Prepared by P. Lee Phillips, F. R. G. S., chief of division of maps and 

charts, Librarv of Congress. A supplement to the Handbook of Brazil 
■ (1901). 145 pp. 8°. 
Central America. A list of books, magazine articles, and maps relating to Central 

America, including the Republics of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, 

Nicaragua, and Salvador. 1800-1900. 109 pp. 8°. 
Chile. A list of books, magazine articles, and maps relating to Chile. 1903. 110 

pp. 8°. 
Cuba. Books [articles in periodicals, and maps] relating to Cuba. Compiled by 

Mr. A. P. C. Griffin, of the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. 

In: Cuba. Prepared by Scilor Gonzalo de Quesada. 1905. Chapter xvii. pp. 315-512. 

Mexico. Bibliography and cartography of Mexico. (A brief list for the benefit of 
those desiring a better knowledge of the country, and an index to the 
literature on the subject. ) 

In Mexico. A geographical sketch. 1901,. Chapter xx. pp. It21-ltl,5. 

Paraguay. A list of books, magazine articles, and maps relating to Paraguay. 1904. 
53 pp. 8°. 



Bolivia. Mapa de la Repiiblica de Bolivia, mandado organizar y publicar por el 

Presidente Constitucional , General Jos6 Manuel Pando. Scale, 1 : 2, 000, 000. 

La Paz, 1901. (Reprint, 1904.) 
Costa Rica. From official and other sources. 1903. Scale of 12.5 miles to 1 inch. 

(792,000.) , 

Guatemala. From official and other sources. 1902. Scale, 12.5 miles to 1 inch. 

(1:792,000.) In two sheets: 1, general map; 2, agricultural areas. 
Mexico. Map of Mexico, from Mexican and other official sources. 1900. In two 

sheets: 1, general map; 2, map showing agricultural features. Scale of 50 

miles to 1 inch. 
Nicaragua. From official and other sources. 1904. Scale, 12.5 miles to 1 inch. 

(1:192,000.) In two sheets: 1, general map; 2, agricultural areas. 

List of Books and Maps in Course op Prepapation. 

Law Manuals: 

Leyes Comerciales de la America Latina: Codigo de Comercio de Espana compa- 
rado con los Codigos y Leyes Comerciales de Pan America. 

Land and Immigration Laws of American Republics. (To replace edition of 
1893.) 
Handbooks: 

Chile. 

Dominican Republic. 

Nicaragua. 
Maps: 

Brazil. [In hands of printer.] 

Honduras. 

El Salvador. 
Library Catalogues: 

Cuba. 

Dominican Republic. 



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THE BUREAU HAS OBTAINED FOR DISTRIBUTION THE FOLLOWING PUBLICATIONS TREATING 
ON SUBJECTS WITHIN ITS SCOPE. 

Brazil at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. St. Louis, 1904. 160 p. 8°. 

Chile. A short description of the Republic of Chile. According to official data. 
1901. 103 p. ill. map. 8°. 

Same. Spanish translation. 

Chile at the Pan-American Exposition. Brief notes on Chile and general catalogue 
of Chile exhibits. 1901. 252 p. ill. 8°. 

Costa Rica. The land, its resources, and its people, by Richard Villafranca. 1895. 
139 p. 

Guatemala. The country of the future, by Charles M. Pepper. 1906. 80 p. 8°. 

International American conference reports and recommendations, 1890, including 
the reports of the plan of arbitration, reciprocity treaties, intercontinental 
railway, steamship communication, sanitary regulations, common silver 
coin, patents and trade-marks, weights and measures, port dues, interna- 
tional law, extradition treaties, international bank, . memorial tablet, 
Columbian Exposition. 1 vol. v. p. 

International American conference reports of committees and discussions thereon. 
1890. (Revised under the direction of the executive committee by order 
of the conference, adopted March 7, 1890. ) 4 vols. 

International sanitary convention. Convocation of the second convention. 1905. 
9 pp. 8°. 

International sanitary convention. Convention ad referendum concluded at the 
second general international sanitary convention of the American Repub- 
lics in Washington on October 14, 1905. 25 pp. 4°. (In English and 
Spanish. ) 

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from 
the Secretary of State submitting the report, with accompanying papers, of 
the delegates of the United States to the Second International Conference 
of American States, held at the City of Mexico from October 22, 1901, to 
January 22, 1902. Washington, 1902. 243 p. 8°. (57th Cong., 1st sess., 
Senate Doc. No. 330. ) 

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Sec- 
retary of State, with accompanying papers, relative to the proceedings of 
the international congress for the study of the production and consump- 
tion of coffee, etc. Washington, 1903. 312 pages, 8° (paper). (57th 
Cong., 2d sess.. Senate Doc. No. 35.) 

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report by the Secre- 
tary of State, with accompanying papers, relative to the proceedings of 
the first customs congress of the American Republics, held at New York 
in January, 1903. Washington, 1903. 195 pages, 8° (paper). (57th 
Cong., 2d sess., Senate Doc. No. 180.) 

Transactions of the first genera) international sanitary convention of the American 
Republics, held at Washington, December 2, 3, and 4, 1902, under the 
auspices of the governing board of the International Union of the Ameri- 
can Republics, Washington, 1903. (57th Cong., 2d sess., Senate Doc. No. 
169. ) (In Spanish and English. ) 

Venezuela. Esbozo geografico, recursos naturales, legislacion , condiciones economicas, 
desarrollo alcanzado, prospecto de futuro desenvolvimiento. Editado y 
compilado para la Oficina International de las Republicas Americanas por 
N. Veloz Goiticoa, Secretario de la Oficina. Traduccion castellana y pub- 
licacion ordenadas por el General Cipriano Castro, Presidente de la Repub- 
lica. Caracas, 1905. 695 pdginas, 8°. 



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